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The Dilbit Disaster

InsideClimate News Wins Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
ICN is the third web-based news organization to win national reporting honors, and the smallest among a trio that includes ProPublica and Huffington Post.
InsideClimate News reporters Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer are the winners of...
Apr 15, 2013 | Read More
Exxon Oil Spill Arkansas
If EPA’s highest number of 7,000 barrels turns out to be correct, the Ark. spill would be roughly a third the size of Michigan's 2010 dilbit disaster.
Since ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured and leaked Canadian oil across an Arkansas suburb a...
Apr 5, 2013 | Read More
Trailer of the ExxonMobil Emergency Response team
ExxonMobil said Lisa Song would be charged with criminal trespass if she didn’t leave the command center where federal authorities are working.
InsideClimate News reporter Lisa Song was threatened with arrest on Wednesday after she entered the...
Apr 5, 2013 | Read More
Exxon dilbit spill in Mayflower, Ark.
Nearly a week after a burst pipeline spilled tar sands crude through their streets, residents of this tiny community are without answers and overwhelmed.
MAYFLOWER, Ark.—Nearly a week after an oil pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Ark., residents of this...
Apr 4, 2013 | Read More
Workers clean up oil following ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline rupture
Risks of using an aging pipeline network for Canadian heavy oil, well-known to industry and discussed over many years, have never been addressed.
The Pegasus pipeline that ruptured and spilled thousands of gallons of tar sands crude in Mayflower...
Apr 3, 2013 | Read More
Crude oil from an Exxon pipeline that ruptured a mile away in an Arkansas suburb
Jay Carney, White House spokesperson, said the EPA is the federal on-scene coordinator, but the reality on the ground is a different story.
MAYFLOWER, Ark.—A warehouse next to highway I-40 here at the edge of Mayflower, Ark., houses the...
Apr 2, 2013 | Read More
Exxon dilbit spill in Mayflower, Arkansas
The pipeline, called the Pegasus, leaked for about 45 minutes, according to local sources. Exxon has recovered 185,000 gallons of oil and water at site.
A pipeline that ruptured and leaked at least 80,000 gallons of oil into central Arkansas on Friday...
Mar 30, 2013 | Read More
Oil cleanup on the Kalamazoo River.
Enbridge agrees to comply with EPA order to dredge Kalamazoo River. Final cleanup costs could top $1 billion.
If all goes well, the next oil removal operation on Michigan's Kalamazoo River will mark the...
Mar 27, 2013 | Read More
The Dilbit Disaster
Scientists say the 1.3 gallon spill in the lab tank omitted real-world factors that made dilbit sink in Michigan’s million-gallon Kalamazoo River spill.
A recent industry-backed study of diluted bitumen, the Canadian crude oil that would be shipped...
Mar 14, 2013 | Read More
Cleanup workers removing submerged oil.
EPA demands some dredging of Kalamazoo River, but the Canadian company responsible for the million gallon spill is objecting. Clean-up is in its 3rd year.
Two and a half years after the costliest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the company...
Jan 28, 2013 | Read More